M&M 3rd ed. Custom Flat: Diminished Area

[CelticREI]

It's not part of the RAW but I have been using the Custom flat to write up "Flat: Diminished Area" which takes the Area (~~) Extra and reduces the area it affects by 1 rank (Thus Burst affects 15 feet radius instead of 30, Cloud affects 6 instead of 15 feet, etc etc and it is ranked so that with two ranks it would make Burst affect 6 feet and so on).
Is there a way to, or someone who could, code that into something I could put into my Hero Lab? I would love to have Hero Lab actually state the reduced area rather than me having to use the Notes section.

The Flat its self is simple
negative Flat (reduces cost by [rank] pp)
An Area Extra is required on the power to have this flat.
Lowers the Area by 1 rank on the Measurements Table (Found on pg 11 of the M&M3e handbook).
Can be taken up to 2 times per power. (As any more ye might as well not have Area on it)

 

[Colen]

There's currently no way to affect the area of an "Area" extra, without just increasing or decreasing the ranks of that extra. You could possibly just copy the Area extra, reduce the value it looks up on the tables, and then named it "Diminished Area (Burst)" or whatever, then add that along with your custom flaw. The current script for burst area looks like:

field[pwmInfo].text = #dist[field[pwmRanks].value-1] & " radius sphere"

You could simply change the -1 to -3:

field[pwmInfo].text = #dist[field[pwmRanks].value-3] & " radius sphere"

To move it two steps down the value table. Or, you could calculate the number to subtract based on the number of ranks on the "Diminished Area" flaw.

I'll see if I can make this easier in the next version...